Firefox Aurora Articles
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A Wall Powered by EventSource and Server-Sent Events
EventSource landed in Aurora 6. It is a new and simplified way to open long-lived connections to a server, and let the browser create events as the server streams messages to the client. It is also available in Chrome and Opera and there are fallback solutions for other browsers. Creating a wall/feed for a social […]
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The <progress> element
The <progress> element just landed in Firefox Aurora (to be Firefox 6). As its name indicate, this element can be used to give visual clues of anything in progress on a Web page: a set of ressources being downloaded, a file being uploaded, a computing Web Worker, a WebGL scene being initialized… Following is a […]
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Firefox Aurora: Playing With Upcoming Features is Now Safe
Firefox Aurora is a preview of the next version of Firefox, released every six weeks. It provides a safe way to play with the latest Web technologies the Mozilla team is working on. What is Aurora? Aurora is a new preview version that fits between the Nightly builds and Betas: Firefox Nightly (firefox.com/channel) is released […]